"Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States" - a new report from the Center for Health and Health Care Services - exposes barriers and opportunities for children's mental health under expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
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May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Obesity disproportionately impacts inner-city minority children. The Family Assessment of Initial Risk (FLAIR) intervention was tested in three primary care centers in the Bronx, New York. This article presents parents' focus group responses evaluating FLAIR.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article describes three interventions that successfully reduced racial/ethnic health care disparities in children: one increased breastfeeding in a Navajo community, one decreased behaviors that can transmit HIV in African-American girls, and one increased insurance rates in Latino children. Learnings and pitfalls from these studies are also described.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result
California Pacific Medical Center evaluated a program called the Identification and Early Intervention Program for At-Risk Seniors, which sought to identify high-risk non-hospitalized seniors before a crisis arose that would have forced a hospital stay.
National Program
Initiative to reduce emergency department visits, increase reliance on primary care providers, improve adherence to clinical protocols, and improve patient knowledge of and compliance with therapeutic regimens.
National Program
Expecting Success was a national program aimed at improving the quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities.
June 1, 2003 | Program Result
Rutgers University completed and partially disseminated the results of the Early Intervention Systems Study, a longitudinal study of early intervention for young children with developmental disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study examined a nationally representative sample of U.S. Mexican American adults for hypertension and other related health care issues.
November 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study created the Chicago Adolescent Depression Risk Assessment, designed to help primary care physicians foresee depression in teens one year in advance, enabling appropriate intervention with kids even mildly at risk and potentially heading off development of the disorder.
October 6, 2009 | Program Result
A research team from the University of Michigan School of Public Health expanded the Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) project, which it had developed in the 1990s.
June 25, 2012 | Program Result
Improving the Science of Continuous Quality Improvement Program and Evaluation funded nine teams of researchers to address a core question within health care environments: "How will we know that change is an improvement?"